Filed under: Yorkshire Dales Food, beer | Tags: ale, arms, beer, best, bitter, brewery, dark horse, elslack, hetton, skipton, tempest, Yorkshire
Following my recommendation of the wonderful creamy Hetton Pale Ale, I spotted Hetton Best Bitter in the Tempest Arms at Elslack when dropping off my Chutney Competition entry last night and thought it rude not to try it!
This is another great beer from the tiny Dark Horse Brewery at Hetton in the Yorkshire Dales near Skipton and well worth seeking out to try.
Hetton Best Bitter, 3.8% abv, Dark Horse Brewery, Hetton is a lovely pint, great condition was served in a branded glass and has a nice sharp dry bitter taste, a great mid brown colour, this is a real session beer that leaves you wanting more!
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- Hetton Best Bitter, Dark Horse Brewery
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- Hetton Best Bitter, Dark Horse Brewery
The Tempest Arms at Elslack is now firmly on my “must visit soon” list as they have a great selection of beers and a fantastic, varied menu of local produce including Bolton Abbey Lamb, Homemade Game Broth, Yorkshire Puddings as a starter, Game Pie, Breast of Partridge, Cornbeef Pie and Roast Belly Pork to name a meaty few.
Beer on tap at the Tempest at the time of my visit in October 2009 included :-
- Hetton Pale Ale, 4.2%, Dark Horse Brewery, Hetton, Skipton
- Wainwright, 4.1%, Thwaites Brewery, Blackburn
- Landlord, 4.3%, Timothy Taylors Brewery, Keighley
- Theakston Best Bitter, 3.8%, Theakston, Masham
- Hetton Best Bitter, 3.8%, Dark Horse Brewery, Hetton, Skipton
- Moorhouse’s Elslack, 4%, Moorhouse’s, Burnley
Filed under: Eating, Food, Yorkshire Dales Food, burgers | Tags: Beef, Steak, hellifield, highland, burger, ale, country, hetton, peas, real, bull, chips, beans, whitby, broughton, nigel, haworth, limestone, dripping, scampi, broad, courgette, puree, rabbit, faggots
I’d just like to say “the Rabbit Faggots at the Bull @ Broughton are really quite excellent”!
Rabbit Faggots
Following on from my previous post about Nigel Haworth’s latest pub enterprise we have just been for lunch and had excellent Wild Rabbit Faggots with Roast Courgette Purée, Tomato Juices £5.50 as a starter followed by the 100% Chargrilled Minced Hellifield Highland Beef Steak, English Muffin, Real Chips cooked in Dripping, Mustard Mayo, Tomato Relish and Pickles £9.75.
Other dishes tried in our luncheon party included the excellent Loose Birds Free-Range Chicken Coarse Liver Pâté, Golden Raisins, Cumberland Sauce, Toasted Homemade Bread £5.50
a very large plateful of Whitby Scampi in Beer Batter, Fresh Broad Beans and Peas (very green, seasonal, fresh and very delicious), Real Chips in Dripping, Lemon and Black Pepper Mayonnaise £14.50
and Limestone Country Beef Ribeye 8oz served with Real Chips cooked in Dripping, Garrick Farm Flat Mushroom,
Willowdene Watercress and Battered Onion Rings £17.50
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- Chicken Liver Pate
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- Hellifield Highland Steak Burger
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- Whitby Scampi
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- Limestone Country Rib Eye Steak
The Bull always looks busy at opening times and if possible I would go late rather than early to avoid a wait, saying that the staff are very personable and attentive and it really is no hardship having a quick drink whilst waiting for your table, choose from the excellent local selection of hand pulled Timothy Taylors, Copper Dragon or Hetton Pale Ale along with Peroni on draught, a comprehensive wine list is also available.
More info on the The Bull @ Broughton, Skipton, North Yorkshire website
Filed under: Food, Yorkshire Dales Food, cheese | Tags: Angel, broughton, bull, carleton, cheese, crowdie, Farm, goats, hetton, skipton, Yellison
Stephen Akrigg and Harry Metcalfe of Yellison Farm, Carleton, Skipton produce excellent Cheese, have just been on a farm visit and watched Harry preparing a fresh batch. They were also testing some new shapes for the cheese in homemade plasticine! I tried the semi hard hand rolled log, that was the cheese not the plasticine and it is without doubt quite delicious. The soft semi hard cheese is hand rolled in logs and rounds for savouries, hoping to try a few recipes soon, maybe starting with a simple red onion & goat cheese tart?
They also produce “Crowdie” a soft spreadable cheese ideal for desserts and dips that comes in tubs and again it is a delicious soft cheese, very mild with a Philadelphia texture.
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- Yellison Goat Cheese & Chorizo
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- Crowdie
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- Draining the whey
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- Splitting the curds & whey
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- One of the Yellison Goats
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- testing different cheese shapes
You can buy Yellison Farm Goat Cheese from Verdes Deli in Skipton or try it locally at The Angel, Hetton or The Bull @ Broughton.
Yellison website or follow Yellison Goat Cheese on Twitter.
Filed under: Eating, Food, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: amuse-bouche, Angel, black pudding, breast, chicken, cornfed, crab, dinner, foie gras, hetton, inn, North Yorkshire, pig, ravioli, restaurant, scallops, skipton, suckling, whitby
Surprise dinner for the birthday girl last night at The Angel Inn, Hetton, Nr Skipton, Yorkshire Dales.
The last few times we have been to the Angel have been for bar meals and the service has been disappointing but we tried the restaurant and A LA CARTE menu last night and all was forgiven, back to the usual quality service and excellent food.
We arrived on time (unusually for us!) and we were immediately shown to our table, 2 glasses of the Wine Cave Rose Champagne Cuvee Brut Bernard Remy ordered and arrived quickly while we perused the menu.
The Food:-
Selection of fresh warm bread rolls including walnut and Parmesan in brown or white.
To start I went for the WHITBY CRAB RAVIOLI with fennel and ginger cream and the better half had the old Angel favourite of ANGELS BLACKPUDDING with seared foie gras, artichoke veloute, grape and walnut salad both dishes were fantastic and my crab ravioli was particularly good!
An amuse-bouche of Cheese with an onion marmalade was served between courses, I didn’t quite catch exactly what the waiter said it was but I know it was tasty!
The main courses, CORNFED CHICKEN BREAST with spring asparagus, peas and beans, truffled pomme puree served with Albufera sauce. SEARED LOCH FYNE KING SCALLOPS WITH CRISPY YORKSHIRE SUCKLING PIG with apple and cauliflower, pomme puree and a red wine reduction. Both very well put together dishes with excellent taste combination’s and they looked fantastic.
The Beer:-
did you really think I wasn’t going to try the beer! Dark Horse Brewery, Hetton Ale was on hand pull and as it’s brewed all of 500 yds down the road from the Angel thought it rude not to try it! The sprinkler had been taken off to wash but the friendly bar staff were more than happy to oblige, replace and pour a pint, again an excellent creamy and very local pint!
No room for pudding so just had the coffee and sweet things which included a mini doughnut and soft vanilla fudge, a very enjoyable evening and I would heartily recommend The Angel, great service and top food.
Dinner is served Monday to Friday 6pm to 9pm and to 9.30pm on Saturday, The Angel Inn Website
The Angel Inn, Hetton, Restaurant
Filed under: Beer Blogs, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: ale, bitter, brewery, bull, dark, fountain, fountaine, hetton, hook, horse, inn, linton, pale, pint, ring
Called in at the Fountaine Inn, Linton on the way back from Lunch at the Red Lion @ Burnsall for a nosey and a quick pint, pleased to find our local brew Hetton Pale Ale from the Dark Horse Brewery. It was served at a great temperature, fantastic condition and an all round quality pint.
I also nonchalantly walked over to the bull ring in the snug and swung it onto the hook first time, not wanting to spoil the effect I didn’t risk having another go !!
Hetton Pale Ale, Dark Horse Brewery
Filed under: Eating, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: aioli, ale, bubble, burnsall, deuchars, fish soup, hetton, IPA, lion, liver, main course, onions, pale, red, red cabbage, squeak, starter, Yorkshire Dales
I do enjoy a trip over to Burnsall but sadly don’t visit the Red Lion as much as I’d like, had an excuse for a trip over today and was very pleased we did.
First the Beer, Timothy Taylor’s Best Bitter or Caledonian Deuchars IPA (one of my favourites through habit when they used to serve it at The Lister Arms in Malham) of course I choose the Deuchars IPA for old time’s sake, good temperature, lovely creamy pint.
The food, for starter’s Fish Soup with Aioli & Gruyere, very meaty fish soup ! can you say that? I mean lot’s of nice fishy or seafoodie bits in this case, squid, mussels all sorts, lovely consistency and a nice floating crouton with a dollop of Aioli and sprinkling of Gruyere on top, yum. served with sundried tomato bread.
Main course, after much thought I plumped for the Liver & onions with bubble and squeak, another great choice on my part, various veg served with the other meals and included, butternut squash mash, dauphinoise potatoes, chips, red cabbage, carrots and cauliflower cheese, oh and a salad with the steak.
Other dishes on the menu included, rib eye steak, smoked haddock, poached egg and hollandaise (I went for this last time I was here!) 14oz rump steak, Hartlington Lamb, Pigeon & chorizo salad, game pie with herb dumpling crust and Haggis (but they had run out).
I was stuffed and couldn’t face a pud but other’s tried a lemon tart with lemon sorbet, an orange and chocolate mouse cake and the cheese and biscuit selection which all looked great and the cheese came with fruit cake as well!
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- Game Pie with Herb Dumpling
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- Potato Dauphinoise
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- Liver & Onions with Bubble & Squeak
Filed under: Eating, Food, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: Angel, blackpudding, breast, casserole, cave, chicken, dales, goosnargh, hetton, inn, liver, moneybags, plaice, pork, prune, taylor's, timothy, veal, wine, Yorkshire
The Angel Inn at Hetton near Skipton in the Yorkshire Dales is only a couple of miles from home and therefore does tend to get overlooked when “going out”. As we had not been for a while, thought we should try the revised and updated Brasserie menu. The new menu has added a few new dishes whilst retaining a few old Angel favourites such as money bags, blackpudding and the provençale fish soup. Also a very good range of vegetarian dishes if that takes your fancy!
The Food… no starter’s today straight into main courses! (we were running a bit late and opening hours had just reverted to Winter!) Our choices included, Seared veal calves liver with sherried lentils, spinach, citrus sauce, fondant potatoes, Goosnargh Chicken Breast with canellini beans, tomato and olive sauce, rocket leaves, Pork & Prune Casserole with , Roasted root vegetables with creamed spinach, fondant new potatoes, red wine reduction and Plaice in a cream sauce.
The Plaice & Calves Liver were voted best and the Pork & Prune got a thumbs down, weird combination and way too salty. Btw we mentioned this and a complimentary dessert appeared.
The Beer… Timothy Taylor’s Landlord of course, sweet & creamy… Also the usual great selection of wines to choose by the glass or bottle. Also all the wines are now available from the Wine Cave across the road.
The Angel Inn, Hetton Daily Specials Board
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- Goosnargh chicken breast, canellini beans, tomato and olive sauce, rocket leaves
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- Seared veal calves liver, sherried lentils, spinach, citrus sauce, fondant potatoes
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- Angel Inn, Pork and Prune Casserole
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- Roasted root vegetables, creamed spinach, fondant new potatoes, red wine reduction
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- Angel Plaice
